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From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).
Requesting a drawing for a low inertia slipper wheel adapted to a stiffer crankshaft.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 14\2\  Scan049
Date  4th September 1929
  
To By.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}

X7010

Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}2/MJ.4.9.29.

S.S. STIFFER CRANKSHAFT.
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X. 7010
X. 4499

When we bring in the stiffer crankshaft
we propose to incorporate the low inertia slipper wheel.
We consider this is most urgent, and we
should be obliged if you would issue a drawing showing the
low inertia slipper wheel adapted to a stiffer crankshaft.

Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
  
  


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